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American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work
by Nick Taylor  Publisher Comments If you've traveled the nation's highways, flown into New York's LaGuardia Airport, strolled San Antonio's River Walk, or seen the Pacific Ocean from the Beach Chalet in San Francisco, you have experienced some part of the legacy of the Works Progress...
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This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
by Drew Gilpin Faust Publisher Comments An illuminating study of the American struggle to comprehend the meaning and practicalities of death in the face of the unprecedented carnage of the Civil War. During the war, approximately 620,000 soldiers lost their lives. An equivalent proportion...
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Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America
by Eric Rauchway Publisher Comments When President McKinley was murdered at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York on September 6, 1901, Americans were bereaved and frightened. Rumor ran rampant: A wild-eyed foreign anarchist with an unpronounceable name had killed the Commander...
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
by David McCullough 
Publisher Comments From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Truman, here is the national bestselling epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal. In The Path Between the Seas, acclaimed historian David McCullough delivers a first-rate drama of the sweeping human...
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Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy
by Ian W. Toll
Powells.com Staff Pick The birth of the U.S. Navy and its coming-of-age engagements are the subject of this richly told and intriguing history. More than a maritime account, this action-filled read skillfully relates the struggles of our country in its infancy. Recommended...
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Standing at Armageddon: A Grassroots History of the Progressive Era
by Nell Irvin Painter Publisher Comments "A consistently engrossing, occasionally irreverent, always smoothly written history of America's painful entry into the modern age."—Kirkus Reviews Standing at Armageddon is a comprehensive and lively historical account of America's shift from a...
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1858: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and the War They Failed to See
by Bruce Chadwick Publisher Comments 1858 explores the events and personalities of the year that would send the America's North and South on a collision course culminating in the slaughter of 630,000 of the nation's young men, a greater number than died in any other American conflict. The...
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The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country
by Laton Mccartney Publisher Comments Mix hundreds of millions of dollars in petroleum reserves; rapacious oil barons and crooked politicians; under-the-table payoffs; murder, suicide, and blackmail; White House cronyism; and the excesses of the Jazz Age. The result: the granddaddy of all...
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Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
by John M Barry
Powells.com Staff Pick "An account of the Mississippi flood of 1927 and how it changed America. When the river flooded, it was possible to travel in a boat, east to west in the South, two hundred miles. The book is an account of how engineers had tried to control the...
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Savage Peace: Hope and Fear in America, 1919
by Ann Hagedorn Publisher Comments Written with the sweep of an epic novel and grounded in extensive research into contemporary documents, Savage Peace is a striking portrait of American democracy under stress. It is the surprising story of America in the year 1919. In the aftermath of an...
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The Rise and Fall of the White Republic: Class Politics and Mass Culture in Nineteenth-Century America (Haymarket)
by Alexander Saxton Synopsis In this historical study, Saxton asks why white racism remained an idealogical force in America long after the need to justify slavery and Western conquest had disappeared. It examines images of race at a popular level, from blackfaced minstrels to dime...
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1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
by David Pietrusza Publisher Comments The presidential election of 1920 was among history’s most dramatic. Six once-and-future presidents-Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, and Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt-jockeyed for the White House. With voters choosing between Wilson’s League...
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What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (Oxford History of the United States)
by Daniel Walker Howe
Publisher Comments The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. The series includes two Pulitzer Prize winners, two New York Times bestsellers, and winners of the Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. Now, in What Hath God...
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The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
by Amity Shlaes Publisher Comments In The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes, one of the nation's most-respected economic commentators, offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression. She traces the mounting agony of the New Dealers and the moving stories of individual citizens who...
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Forgotten Man: a New History of the Great Depression (07 Edition)
by Shlaes Publisher Comments It's difficult today to imagine how America survived the Great Depression. Only through the stories of the common people who struggled during that era can we really understand how the nation endured. These are the people at the heart of Amity Shlaes's...
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Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation
by Peter L Bernstein Publisher Comments THE BUILDING of the Erie Canal, like the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Panama Canal, is one of the greatest and most riveting stories of American ingenuity. Best-selling author Peter Bernstein presents the story of the canal's construction...
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The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
by Louis Menand
Publisher Comments Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History A riveting, original book about the creation of modern American thought. The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included...
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Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900 (Vintage)
by Jack Beatty Publisher Comments Age of Betrayal is a brilliant reconsideration of America's first Gilded Age, when war-born dreams of freedom and democracy died of their impossibility. Focusing on the alliance between government and railroads forged by bribes and campaign contributions,...
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Only Yesterday: An Informal History of Hte 1920s
by Frederick Allen Publisher Comments Only Yesterday deals with that delightful decade from the Armistice in November 1918 to the panic and depression of 1929-30. Here is the story of Woodrow Wilson's defeat, the Harding scandals, the Coolidge prosperity, the revolution in manners and morals,...
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Democracy's Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent
by Ernest Freeberg Publisher Comments In 1920, socialist leader Eugene V. Debs ran for president while serving a ten-year jail term for speaking against Americaandrsquo;s role in World War I. Though many called Debs a traitor, others praised him as a prisoner of conscience, a martyr to the...
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